A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

For you that sell hatching eggs, what do you do about people that jump to the assumption if an egg does not develop it was not fertile?

A woman bought dozen turkey eggs. I gave her 14. They were all 4 days or less in age. I just got a text saying only 7 were fertile. I know my Toms. There is no way a hen was not bred. multiple times in the last month.

The weather was not freezing the eggs were brought in daily.

I I only had a few non-starters in my last batch, maybe 7-8, that is the batch I hatched 25, I think I started with 38. I have 6 quitters non-hatchers.

I told her to come get another dozen, she wants to wait until this batch hatches......Geez.... I released all my hens yesterday to free range and make their own nest.

I told her I have the eggs now but may not in 2 weeks...

Also she picked them up on the 16th. Today is the 25th...Way too early to tell for sure...
Sorry you're dealing with a pita Ralphie. I hatch eggs all the time, and bonus, they are shipped since I'm close to no one. I guess it's my form of gambling. It's just that, gambling.

I think it's great that you're offering to replace, but she needs to be made aware of the gamble. Once they leave your hands you have no control over hatch rates. And no, you cannot tell from cracking a partially incubated egg open if it was ever fertile. I've cracked many. I like to see what happened or didn't happen.

I would LOVE to hatch eggs from your flock if you ever get an extra dozen. I'll be in St. Cloud next month. Close enough right?
 
I agree..

I am also amazed how people see nothing developing and think it is unfertilized. They do not realize some many things can stop and embryo before it even starts. Being shaken, a virus or bacteria, too high temps and who knows what else.

She texted back now saying she broke them all open and they were not fertilized, I doubt she knows what a fertilized versus unfertilized looks like..

In addition, I have had the hens with just one tom in a pen for months now. I know what that Tom does when he is bored..So do the hens!

She is hatching in a foamie, so who knows what the temps are and where. It looks like a cheapie by the picture, I doubt it has a fan.

If hatching was 100% I would be rich on my hatches! I think it was R2Elk that said buying hatched chicks is cheaper than buying shipped eggs. While these were not shipped they were driven 40 miles in a car with 3 kids....

Oh well.

I’m not sure if I were you that I’d offer to replace them. I just got my first incubator in the mail. (Yay!) I wouldn’t even consider trying my first go with a valuable clutch of turkey eggs. I’m gonna do my best, and hope for beginners’ luck, but they’ll be the most generic eggs I can find. All the online suppliers essentially say that they do their best to ship good eggs, packed well, AND that once the eggs leave their facility, you and Lady Luck are on your own.

So I guess if I was gonna be nice, I’d just give the money back so the whole thing would be over and I wouldn’t be worried that she’d wreck the next batch too, and the next, and the next—and then go out and tell all her friends never to buy eggs from me because they’re sure to be infertile.
 
I’m not sure if I were you that I’d offer to replace them. I just got my first incubator in the mail. (Yay!) I wouldn’t even consider trying my first go with a valuable clutch of turkey eggs. I’m gonna do my best, and hope for beginners’ luck, but they’ll be the most generic eggs I can find. All the online suppliers essentially say that they do their best to ship good eggs, packed well, AND that once the eggs leave their facility, you and Lady Luck are on your own.

So I guess if I was gonna be nice, I’d just give the money back so the whole thing would be over and I wouldn’t be worried that she’d wreck the next batch too, and the next, and the next—and then go out and tell all her friends never to buy eggs from me because they’re sure to be infertile.
As I said, I know my boys...No girl is left untouched...nor hubcab,, nor waterer base left with a waterer on it, a piece of paper in the yard, you name it they breed it.
 
@duluthralphie at least your boys are courteous and spread the love to everything.

Ended up getting the 9 turkeys this morning. Got them all home and situated. Now all Tom's but 1 have 4 hens. The 1 tom has 2.

On the flood front main highway going south had water to edges at 7 am. When I came back thru at 11. Was at centerline in 3 spots and running across about 6 inches deep in a 4 th. Haven't went and checked but heard they closed it at about 130. Windy as all get out and calling for rain tonight thru sat. Hope it misses us.
 
@duluthralphie at least your boys are courteous and spread the love to everything.

Ended up getting the 9 turkeys this morning. Got them all home and situated. Now all Tom's but 1 have 4 hens. The 1 tom has 2.

On the flood front main highway going south had water to edges at 7 am. When I came back thru at 11. Was at centerline in 3 spots and running across about 6 inches deep in a 4 th. Haven't went and checked but heard they closed it at about 130. Windy as all get out and calling for rain tonight thru sat. Hope it misses us.

Wow, stay safe and try to keep dry!
 
Last night, there was a possum trying to get in my turkey pen.... The last one I saw trying to do that got one of my pullets (a week or so ago). He didn't have a happy ending. This one will hopefully share the same fate as the last one. I found a live trap for $20 on Facebook and went and picked it up. I really didn't want to pay $70 for a new one. Anyone know any good recipes for possum? Lol
 

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